Modern All Time List Rankdown (FINISHED)

[Optical Apex]

There are songs even in the 80s range that I still found alright. This is gonna be a tough one

[samo🦕]

not me forgetting this is one of those rankdowns that’s not due at the end of the due date

if you can give me half an hour I’d love to get a list in, but otherwise just tag me for the results

edit: okay it’s literally 2:30am here, if i can still send when i wake up we love that, if not i hope both teams have fun

[mikerivera]

Okay so, the results are calculated. For anyone who wanted to participate but didn’t get their list in on time, there are two ties that I would really like to have broken. Feel free to send me a message, and I’ll send you the ties and let you decide which songs should be ranked higher. Once again, I will only accept an odd number of tiebreakers, and it will be first come, first served.

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Apr 10, 2022 20:50:27 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Okay so, the results are calculated. For anyone who wanted to participate but didn’t get their list in on time, there are two ties that I would really like to have broken. Feel free to send me a message, and I’ll send you the ties and let you decide which songs should be ranked higher. Once again, I will only accept an odd number of tiebreakers, and it will be first come, first served.

For ties, you could always go for which song has the highest rank

[mikerivera]

For everyone else, welcome to the show! I hope to make this as fun as possible. In addition to the rankdown itself, I want to play an additional game. Here’s how it works. I’m gonna give y’all a survey for what will happen. Every correct answer will be one point, and every perfect ranking in the RD will be one point. In the end, I’m gonna tally up the points, and whoever has the most will win! I’m going to begin posting songs on Thursday, April 21 at 8pm EST, so please post your answers by then if you want them to count. This is totally voluntary, and if you want to just sit back and enjoy the RD, then by all means feel free! So with all that said, here is the survey!

1. Which song will finish #1?

2. Which song will finish #100?

3. Which songs will be in the top 10? (1 point per correct answer)

4. Which songs will be in the bottom 10? (1 point per correct answer)

5. Which song will have the highest standard deviation?

6. Which song will have the lowest standard deviation?

7. Place the following songs in the correct order from highest to lowest by artist (1 point per correct ordering):
-AC/DC: Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Thunderstruck
-Adele: Hello, Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You
-Bruno Mars: Just the Way You Are, Uptown Funk
-Coldplay: The Scientist, Viva La Vida
-Credence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son, Have You Ever Seen the Rain
-Ed Sheeran: Perfect, Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud
-Elvis Presley: Can’t Help Falling in Love, Jailhouse Rock
-Eminem: Lose Yourself, Till I Collapse, Without Me
-George Michael: Careless Whisper, Last Christmas
-Guns N Roses: November Rain, Sweet Child O Mine
-Linkin Park: In the End, Numb
-Maroon 5: Girls Like You, Moves Like Jagger, Sugar
-Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters
-Michael Jackson: Beat It, Billie Jean, I Want You Back, Thriller
-Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now, Somebody to Love, Under Pressure, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You
-The Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Paint it Black

8. What song will be the highest ranking song of each decade? (1 point per decade guessed correctly)

9. Face Offs (guess which will be highest; 1 point per correct guess)
-Christmas songs:
   a) All I Want For Christmas is You
   b) Last Christmas
-Country songs:
   a) Love Story
   b) Take Me Home, Country Roads
-Another
   a) Brick in the Wall
   b) One Bites the Dust
-Sweet:
   a) Child O’ Mine
   b) Dreams (Are Made of This)
   c) Home Alabama
-Better Dreamer:
   a) Eurythmics
   b) Fleetwood Mac
-Best “I Love You” song:
   a) All of Me
   b) Can’t Help Falling in Love
   c) Halo
   d) I Will Always Love You
   e) Just the Way You Are
   f) Nothing Else Matters
   g) Perfect
   h) Thinking Out Loud

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{Rankers} mikerivera Vic @crapkuki23 joshtheking chanman jred Rose "Payola" Nylund khan nathanalbright Kanenrá:ke 𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿 Doc Indie Party Rock singingrulebritannia ccarter1023 wrip beyoncelover twigs 312999 ilikemilk AwesomePostMalone Red CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker Optical Apex alexcuse Fire aerodynamite BB🌕 @imhappy259 anthony11554 Mr. Thonk Eyes woods toomuchboy

[312999]

Winner is September or Billie Jean.

Last place is Let Her Go, Girls Like You, or Dance Monkey.

Highest SD is something like Don’t Stop Believin, Living On A Prayer, Bohemian Rhapsody, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, both Metallica songs, maybe the song that I ranked 96, as I think it might make top 30.

As far as highest song by decade I’ll guess 2010s the highest song will be Uptown Funk.

[mikerivera]

Apr 10, 2022 20:54:03 GMT -5 CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker said:

Apr 10, 2022 20:50:27 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Okay so, the results are calculated. For anyone who wanted to participate but didn’t get their list in on time, there are two ties that I would really like to have broken. Feel free to send me a message, and I’ll send you the ties and let you decide which songs should be ranked higher. Once again, I will only accept an odd number of tiebreakers, and it will be first come, first served.

For ties, you could always go for which song has the highest rank

I can, but I prefer to be as democratic as possible. 
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[singingrulebritannia]

Does this tiebreaker method mean some posters--specifically people who didn't fully participate--will know some of the results of the rankdown before the rest of us do?

[wrip]

I don’t feel like answering all the questions but let me just make some top 10/bottom 10 predictions:

There are a lot of top ten contenders, I’d say Billie Jean, Dancing Queen, Dreams, and September feel like pretty safe bets go make it. I could see 1 or both Coldplay songs being top ten contenders, maybe MJ’s other songs, and idk this is a more “out-there” prediction but maybe something like Poker Face?

Bottom Ten will probably have a good amount of newer songs, any or all of these songs I could see being here: All Of Me, Dance Monkey, Girls Like You, Let Her Go, Shape Of You, Sugar. I Could see Everything I Do, I’m Yours and maybe some other songs end up here as well

[mikerivera]

Apr 10, 2022 21:53:42 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Does this tiebreaker method mean some posters--specifically people who didn't fully participate--will know some of the results of the rankdown before the rest of us do?

Only which songs are tied together. They won’t know where those songs rank in the overall rankdown, or even which pairing ranks higher than the other

[Fire]

1. Which song will finish #1?
billie jean or september

2. Which song will finish #100?
i'm yours or girls like you

3. Which songs will be in the top 10? (1 point per correct answer)
honestly there are many contenders here, but i feel pretty confident in dancing queen, take on me, beat it, thriller, viva la vida, dreams, and another one bites the dust. maybe lose yourself and rolling in the deep can sneak in too idk

4. Which songs will be in the bottom 10? (1 point per correct answer)
happy, let her go, dance monkey, that bryan adams song i'm too lazy to type out, maybe closer and shape of you and/or perfect?

5. Which song will have the highest standard deviation?
don't stop belevin and maybe bohemian rhapsody. other than that i can see maybe a few 2010s songs getting high sd's, probably see you again or jtwya (i'm throwing out wild guesses here lol). i'll also make a bold prediction that blinding lights will be up here too bc i know there are a lot of people who are sick of that, though i'm not sure how many of them participated so i'm probably completely off here lmao

6. Which song will have the lowest standard deviation?
the songs that win and lose idfk

7. Place the following songs in the correct order from highest to lowest by artist (1 point per correct ordering):
-AC/DC: Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Thunderstruck
-Adele: Hello, Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You
-Bruno Mars: Just the Way You Are, Uptown Funk
-Coldplay: The Scientist, Viva La Vida
-Credence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son, Have You Ever Seen the Rain
-Ed Sheeran: Perfect, Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud
-Elvis Presley: Can’t Help Falling in Love, Jailhouse Rock
-Eminem: Lose Yourself, Till I Collapse, Without Me
-George Michael: Careless Whisper, Last Christmas
-Guns N Roses: November Rain, Sweet Child O Mine
-Linkin Park: In the End, Numb
-Maroon 5: Girls Like You, Moves Like Jagger, Sugar (honestly this is a tossup lol, i don't think any of them will survive like bottom 30 at most lmao)
-Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters
-Michael Jackson: Beat It, Billie Jean, I Want You Back, Thriller
-Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now, Somebody to Love, Under Pressure, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You
-The Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Paint it Black

8. What song will be the highest ranking song of each decade? (1 point per decade guessed correctly)
won't do all of them but:

2010s: rolling in the deep
2000s: viva la vida
1980s: billie jean
1970s: september

9. Face Offs (guess which will be highest; 1 point per correct guess)
-Christmas songs:
a) All I Want For Christmas is You
b) Last Christmas
-Country songs:
a) Love Story
b) Take Me Home, Country Roads
-Another
a) Brick in the Wall
b) One Bites the Dust
-Sweet:
a) Child O’ Mine
b) Dreams (Are Made of This)
c) Home Alabama
-Better Dreamer:
a) Eurythmics
b) Fleetwood Mac
-Best “I Love You” song:
a) All of Me
b) Can’t Help Falling in Love
c) Halo
d) I Will Always Love You
e) Just the Way You Are
f) Nothing Else Matters
g) Perfect
h) Thinking Out Loud

[walt91]

Apr 10, 2022 21:25:18 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

{Rankers} Mr. Thonk Eyes

[jred]

1. September
2. Girls Like You
3. September, Billie Jean, Viva La Vida, Dancing Queen, Thriller, Lose Yourself, Dreams, Somebody to Love, Someone Like You, Hey Jude
4. Girls Like You, Dance Monkey, Let Her Go, Sugar, Everything I Do, Shape of You, Closer, Without Me, I'm Yours, See You Again
5. Maybe a bold prediction but Wonderwall
6. Dance Monkey
7. -AC/DC: Thunderstruck, Back in Black, Highway to Hell
-Adele: Someone Like You, Rolling in the Deep, Hello
-Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk, Just the Way You Are
-Coldplay: Viva La Vida, The Scientist
-CCR: Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Fortunate Son
-Ed Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud, Perfect, Shape of You
-Elvis: Can't Help Falling in Love, Jailhouse Rock
-Eminem: Lose Yourself, Till I Collapse, Without Me
-George Michael: Last Christmas, Careless Whisper
-GNR: Sweet Child O Mine, November Rain
-Linkin Park: Numb, In the End
-Maroon 5: Moves Like Jagger, Sugar, Girls Like You
-Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters
-MJ: Billie Jean, Thriller, Beat It, I Want You Back
-Queen: Somebody to Love, Don't Stop Me Now, Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, Under Pressure, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You
-Rolling Stones: Paint it Black, Satisfaction
8. 2010s: Someone Like You
2000s: Viva La Vida
1990s: All I Want for Christmas Is You
1980s: Billie Jean
1970s: Dancing Queen
1960s: Hey Jude
1950s: Jailhouse Rock
9. -Christmas: All I Want for Christmas Is You
-Country: Love Story
-Another: One Bites the Dust
-Sweet: Child O'Mine
-Better Dreamer: Fleetwood Mac
-Best "I Love You" Song: Can't Help Falling In Love

[woods]

1. Which song will finish #1? I think Billie Jean is most likely.
2. Which song will finish #100? Girls Like You
3. Which songs will be in the top 10? (1 point per correct answer) Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Another Brick in the Wall, Another One Bites the Dust, Billie Jean, Bohemian Rhapsody, Dreams, Rolling in the Deep, September, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Viva la Vida
4. Which songs will be in the bottom 10? (1 point per correct answer) All of Me, Dance Monkey, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, Girls Like You, I'm Yours, Let Her Go, Moves Like Jagger, Perfect, Shape of You, Sugar
6. Which song will have the lowest standard deviation? (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
7. Place the following songs in the correct order from highest to lowest by artist (1 point per correct ordering):
-AC/DC: BIB > HTH > Thunderstruck
-Adele: RITD > SLY > Hello
-Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk > JTWYA
-Coldplay: VLV > The Scientist
-Credence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son > HYESTR
-Ed Sheeran: TOL > Perfect > SOY
-Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock > CHFIL
-Eminem: Lose Yourself > Without Me > TIC
-George Michael: Careless Whisper > Last Christmas
-Guns N Roses: November Rain > SCOM
-Linkin Park: In the End > Numb
-Maroon 5: MLJ > Sugar > GLY
-Metallica: Enter Sandman > Nothing Else Matters
-Michael Jackson: Billie Jean > IWYB > Beat It > Thriller
-Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody > AOBTD > DSMN > Under Pressure > STL > WWRY > WATC
-The Rolling Stones: PIB > (ICGN)S
8. What song will be the highest ranking song of each decade? (1 point per decade guessed correctly) Jailhouse Rock (I think this is the only '50s song here idk), Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Dreams, Billie Jean, (I'm too exhausted to find a song from the '90s), Viva la Vida, Rolling in the Deep, Blinding Lights (technically)
9. Face Offs (guess which will be highest; 1 point per correct guess)
-Christmas songs: AIWFCIY
-Country songs: TMHCR
-Another: ABITW
-Sweet: SD(AMOT)
-Better Dreamer: Fleetwood Mac
-Best “I Love You” song: IWALY (I doubt it though tbh)

[312999]

I have Viva La Vida high, but I really don't think that it is a top 10 lock at all. I'm surprised that multiple people are predicting that top 10 over Take On Me, Stayin Alive, or even Stand By Me, that have not been mentioned yet unless I missed it, which I think those 3 could make the top 10. But I could be wrong.

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

OK I need to speak up

Yall are absolutely HIGH if Love Story beats John Denver.

[312999]

Apr 11, 2022 1:55:59 GMT -5 CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker said:

OK I need to speak up

Yall are absolutely HIGH if Love Story beats John Denver.

Looks like I did not help in this case, oops.

[joshtheking]

Apr 11, 2022 1:55:59 GMT -5 CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker said:

OK I need to speak up

Yall are absolutely HIGH if Love Story beats John Denver.

I did have John higher but both are excellent cuts, I wouldn't be mad if Love Story is higher

[joshtheking]

1. Hey Jude
2. Girls Like You
3. Hey Jude, Billie Jean, Take On Me, Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Thriller, Dreams, Don't Stop Me Now, Dancing Queen, November Rain
4. Girls Like You, Everything I Do, Sugar, Shape Of You, Closer, Dance Monkey, I'm Yours, Let Her Go, Perfect, All Of Me
5. Wonderwall
6. Thriller
7. 
AC/DC: BIB, HTH, Thunderstruck
Adele: RITD, SLY, Hello
Bruno: Uptown Funk, JTWYA
Coldplay: VLV, The Scientist
Creedence: HYESTR, Fortunate Son
Ed: TOL, Perfect, SOY
Elvis: Jailhouse Rock, CHFIL
Eminem: Lose Yourself, Without Me, TIC
GNR: November Rain, SCOM
Linkin Park: ITE, Numb
Maroon 5: MLJ, Sugar, GLY
Metallica: NEM, Enter Sandman
Michael: Billie Jean, Thriller, Beat It, IWYB
Queen: BR, DSMN, AOBTD, STL, Under Pressure, WATC, WWRY
Rolling Stones: PIB, ICGNS
8. 
2010's: Uptown Funk
2000's: Viva La Vida
1990's: November Rain
1980's: Billie Jean
1970's: Bohemian Rhapsody
1960's: Hey Jude
1950's: Jailhouse Rock
9.
Christmas: AIWFCIY
Country: TMHCR
Another: AOBTD
Sweet: SCOM
Dream: Fleetwood Mac
I Love You: IWALY

[samo🦕]

[mikerivera]

Apr 11, 2022 7:18:30 GMT -5 samo🦕 said:

The reason I’m taking awhile to do reveals is because I’m doing this all mechanically and need time to double check all the numbers and to calculate the SDs. Also, y’all have had over two months to work on this and get it in

[312999]

There’s a system on google sheets you can type STdev = (drag the cells you want to calculate). Same with the points, Sum = (drag cells you want to calculate). Assuming you are not using google sheets or excel. I’m taking a class right now that requires excel using so I am getting a bit used to it myself. Otherwise if you are doing this all manually, it’s going to take forever.

[samo🦕]

yeah, for a rankdown this big I would definitely recommend using a spreadsheet, it makes basically every aspect of hosting a rankdown quicker and easier

[ilikemilk]

Apr 11, 2022 9:35:06 GMT -5 312999 said:

There’s a system on google sheets you can type STdev = (drag the cells you want to calculate). Same with the points, Sum = (drag cells you want to calculate). Assuming you are not using google sheets or excel. I’m taking a class right now that requires excel using so I am getting a bit used to it myself. Otherwise if you are doing this all manually, it’s going to take forever.

I have always wanted to know how one can do closeness from excel, is there a special formula for that too. Songs closeness and member closeness.

[312999]

Apr 11, 2022 10:42:47 GMT -5 ilikemilk said:

Apr 11, 2022 9:35:06 GMT -5 312999 said:

There’s a system on google sheets you can type STdev = (drag the cells you want to calculate). Same with the points, Sum = (drag cells you want to calculate). Assuming you are not using google sheets or excel. I’m taking a class right now that requires excel using so I am getting a bit used to it myself. Otherwise if you are doing this all manually, it’s going to take forever.

I have always wanted to know how one can do closeness from excel, is there a special formula for that too. Songs closeness and member closeness.

That one I’m not sure, I think the Closeness one I might know but not from the top of my head. Member closeness I definitely do not know.

[khan]

Not even gonna try guessing on a list like this because I just know everyone is gonna have some random personal deep connection to at least one of these classic songs and every ranking will be all over the place.

[Darkest Hour]

Apr 11, 2022 9:28:27 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

The reason I’m taking awhile to do reveals is because I’m doing this all mechanically and need time to double check all the numbers and to calculate the SDs. Also, y’all have had over two months to work on this and get it in

(I am here as a spectator)
Do you mean entering the ranks manually? In that case, the Text to Columns function in Excel should be helpful. Basically you type in a delimiter and it will separate the songs and the ranks in columns for you if the participants send in a format that allows you to do this.

Be careful though, you need to double-check the separation results because almost all large rankdowns had mistakes due to this feature (wrong song names from a participant's list could make this happen).

[twigs]

If Take Me Home Country Roads beats Love Story I’ll cry

[AwesomePostMalone]

Take Me Home Country Roads is fine but we all know this version would have been everyone's #1

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[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Apr 12, 2022 5:47:12 GMT -5 twigs said:

If Take Me Home Country Roads beats Love Story I’ll cry

Oh you have nothing to worry about. Being on Pulse, I know the top songs are gonna be Pop Adjacent, so Taylor is unfortunately probably making top half while John Denver gets robbed at a random number like 66